On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> wrote:
Attached is a draft patch that lets partial aggregation happen at base relation level. If the relations contain relatively small number of groups, the number of input rows of the aggregation at the query level can be reduced this way. Also, if append relation and postgres_fdw planning is enhanced accordingly, patch like this can let us aggregate individual tables on remote servers (e.g. shard nodes) and thus reduce the amount of rows subject to the final aggregation.
For example, consider query
SELECT b.j, sum(a.x) FROM a, b WHERE a.i = b.j GROUP BY b.j;
and tables "a"
i | x ------- 1 | 3 1 | 4
and "b"
j --- 1 1
The example should have j= 1,2 , right?
and "b"
j --- 1 2
The base relations grouped look like
i | sum(a.x)| count(*) ----------------------- 1 | 7 | 2
